Monthly Archives: July 2016

Marvel has been criticized in the past about their mistreatment of their black and female heroes. However, while it is easy to blame the studio as a whole, a large portion of the blame must be laid at the feet of Ike Perlmutter, the former Marvel...

You may not know it, but there’s a very good chance that Marni Nixon was your favorite actress growing up. In the hit Academy Award-winning films The King and I, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady, the things you remember most are the gorgeous...

Can you smell that? Coming in off the north winds? Do you know what that is? That’s the smell of Festival Season, the greatest season of them all. And today, we come one step closer to its glories, as the Toronto International Film Festival (or...

One of the most exciting directors out there right now is the little-known Adam Wingard. Along with his writing partner Simon Barrett, Wingard first broke out in 2011 for the wonderful You’re Next, a slasher movie that knows how dumb it is and...

It goes without saying at this point that The Lego Movie was the breakout hit of 2014. Smart, witty, silly and heartwarming, the film really worked because of its ensemble cast-sure, Chris Pratt was great, but it was almost just as fun to see...

In an era when superhero films are literally everywhere, there is somehow an inexplicable absence of female focused heroes. The argument studios have made is the failure of Supergirl and Catwoman, but I’d say the lack of effort in both of those...

With the only major releases this week Lights Out (which I reviewed here) and Ice Age: Collision Course (which I did not bother with), I chose to stay home and watch the Republican National Convention. However, in the midst of all that...

I wasn’t planning on posting anything from Comic Con up to the minute. Usually there isn’t anything massive that drops there, and it can wait until Monday. In fact, there are a lot of trailers that I am leaving until then, as they can wait...

Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd is considered by many people (myself included) to be one of the greatest films of all time. It takes on its story from several different angles: it’s a Hollywood satire, showing the ridiculousness of the entire...

The past six years have been a windfall for the horror genre. From The Conjuring and The Cabin in the Woods to The Babadook and It Follows, it’s been something of a golden age for scaring us sh*tless. This year alone, we have seen the likes of...

Everyone has the ability claim themselves a film buff. The only real requirements are a love for cinema and a vast film collection. And with the ease of downloading movies to your computer and the vastly declining price of DVDs and Blu-rays, this...